The Cabinet’s approval was sought to retain the services of Adit North, a specialist public sector ICT consultancy, to undertake further work to advise the Council on the procurement and management of a world class next generation access network for Wirral.

The Director of Regeneration’s report informed that the cost of the Stage 1 and Stage 2 work would be above the procurement threshold for tendering purposes.

RESOLVED:

That the services of Adit North be retained by the Council to provide further consultancy support for the NGA project at a maximum cost of £121,500: this sum to be funded from the Working Neighbourhoods Fund.